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Copyright 2016 by Jerome Pohlen
All rights reserved
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-1-61373-082-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pohlen, Jerome.
Gay and lesbian history for kids : the century-long struggle for LGBT rights, with 21 activities / by Jerome Pohlen. First edition.
pages cm. (For kids)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61373-082-9 (trade paper)
1. Gay rightsUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 2. GaysUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. I. Title.
HQ76.8.U5P64 2015
323.32640973dc23
2015010563
Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk
Interior illustrations: James Spence
Cover images: Front cover (from left): Rainbow flag, Alexander Demyanenko/Shutterstock; Harvey Milk, Photo Pat Rocco, all rights reserved; Gay Liberation Front, Photo by Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library; Julie, Annie, and Hillary Goodridge, Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters/Corbis; Oscar Wilde, Library of Congress (LC-USZC4-7095); Stonewall Inn, Photo by Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library; Keith Haring ACT UP poster, ACT UP New York Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, Keith Haring Foundation; Wewha, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution (02440800); Out and Proud pin, authors collection. Back cover image of the White House by Ted Eytan.
The Equality Logo on is a registered trademark of the Human Rights Campaign. It has been reproduced in this book with the permission of the Human Rights Campaign.
Printed in the United States
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For my mother, Barbara Jean Standiford Pohlen, who taught me about empathy and compassion
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| 570 BC | Greek poet Sappho dies |
| 1503-06 | Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa |
| 1855 | Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass |
| 1871 | Germany enacts Paragraph 175 |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde goes on trial in London |
| 1897 | Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Germany |
| 1924 | Henry 0 establishes the Society for Human Rights in Chicago |
| 1930 | Lili Elbe undergoes the first sex-reassignment surgery in Berlin |
| 1945 | World War II veterans establish the Veterans Benevolent Association |
| 1950 | Friends found the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles |
| 1952 | Christine Jorgensen becomes Americas most famous transgender person |
| 1955 | The Daughters of Bilitis is founded in San Francisco |
| 1956 | Dr. Evelyn Hooker releases her groundbreaking study on gay men |
| 1965 | LGBT activists picket the White House at the first Annual Reminder |
| 1969 | Stonewall Uprising erupts |
| Gay Liberation Front is founded | |
| Gay Activist Alliance is founded | |
| 1970 | Lavender Menace and Radicalesbians are founded |
| 1973 | Jeanne and Jules Manford establish PFLAG |
| Homosexuality is removed as a mental illness from the DSM | |
| 1977 | Anita Bryants Save Our Children campaign targets Miami |
| Harvey Milk is elected to San Franciscos Board of Supervisors | |
| 1978 | Gilbert Baker designs the first rainbow flag |
| Harvey Milk and San Francisco mayor George Moscone are assassinated | |
| 1979 | First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights is held |
| 1981 | AIDS is first reported in the New York Times |
| Larry Kramer and friends establish the Gay Mens Health Crisis in New York | |
| 1982 | First Gay Games are held in San Francisco |
| 1986 | Supreme Court issues Bowers v. Hardwick decision |
| 1987 | ACT UP is founded in New York |
| Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights is held | |
| 1989 | Denmark offers first registered partnerships to same-sex couples |
| 1993 | Third March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights & Liberation is held Dont Ask, Dont Tell is signed by President Clinton |
| 1996 | AIDS cocktail is first introduced |
| Defense of Marriage Act is passed and signed by President Clinton | |
| 1997 | Ellen DeGeneres comes out |
| 1998 | Matthew Shepard is murdered in Laramie, Wyoming |
| 2000 | Vermont offers civil unions to same-sex couples |
| 2003 | Supreme Court overturns Bowers decision with ruling in Lawrence v. Texas |
| Massachusetts Supreme Court strikes down same-sex marriage ban | |
| 2004 | San Francisco Winter of Love is launched by Mayor Gavin Newsom |
| 2005 | Canada makes same-sex marriage legal nationwide |
| 2008 | California Supreme Court strikes down state marriage ban |
| Proposition 8 passes in California, halting same-sex marriages | |
| 2009 | President Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act |
| 2010 | Dan Savage and Terry Miller launch the It Gets Better Project |
| Dont Ask, Dont Tell is repealed, effective in 2011 |
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